NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An NYPD officer was in critical condition on Thursday after crashing a patrol car while responding to a 911 call in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, police said.
The officer was driving a marked NYPD vehicle to a report of an armed man in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 8 p.m. when the vehicle collided with a white Nissan Rogue.
The officer was heading eastbound on Willoughby Avenue, and the Nissan driver was going northbound on Walworth Street, when the two vehicles collided at the intersection.
It’s unclear who had the green light at the time. Police said no criminality is suspected.
The officer was breathing but unconscious while being rushed to the hospital in critical condition, police said.
The driver of the Nissan was hospitalized in stable condition.
The officer was heading to a location about three blocks away—Willoughby Avenue and Tompkins Avenue—where there was a call of a man with a gun.